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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






2. Tracking - reviewing - regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan






3. Estimate or prediction of conditions and events in the projects future based on information and knowledge available at the time of the forecast. information is based on the project's past performance and expected future performance






4. The statue - quality or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. an applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.






5. Total costs actually incurred and recorded in accomplishing work performed during a given time period for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. actual cost can sometimes be direct labor hours alone - direct costs alone - or all c






6. Document describing how roles and responsibilities - reporting relationships and staffing management will be addressed and structured for the project






7. Organizational body or entity assigned various responsibilities related to the centralized and coordinated management of those projects under its domain.






8. Improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project performance






9. Approved specific version of the detailed scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) and its associated WBS dictionary






10. A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description - activity identifier - and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed






11. Defined systematic procedure employed by a human resource to perform an activity to produce a product or result or deliver a service that may employ one or more tools






12. The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity






13. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence






14. Narrative description of products - services or results






15. Monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes






16. A short unique numeric or text identification assigned to each schedule activity to differentiate that project activity from other project activities. typically unique within any one project schedule network diagram






17. System of practices - techniques - procedures and rules used by those who work in a discipline






18. Information system consisting of tools and techniques to gather - integrate and disseminate the outputs of project management processes.






19. Provider of products - services or results






20. Graphical representation of situations showing causal influences - time ordering of events and other relationships among variables and outcomes






21. Analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in every component of a product is analyzed to determine its effect on the reliability of that component and - by itself or in combination with other possible failure modes - on the reliabilit






22. Hierarchically organized depiction of the project organization arranged so as to relate the work packages to the performing organizational units






23. Source of variation that is not inherent in the system - is not predictable - and it intermittent. also referred to as assignable cause.






24. The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity






25. Identifying and documenting relationships among project activities






26. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measures of scale such as size - weight - and complexity from a previous similar activity as the basis of estimating the same parameter or me






27. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






28. The expected total cost of a schedule activity - a work breakdown structure component or the project when the defined scope of work will be completed. Calculated based on performance to date or estimated by the project team based on other factors






29. Float (total float - free float)






30. The document that describes the communications needs and expectations for the project; how and in what format information will be communicated; when and where each communication will be made; wan who is responsible for providing each type of communic






31. Requirements imposed by a government body. government mandated compliance






32. Bar chart showing the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time periods.






33. Performed to defined a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase






34. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






35. Modification that allows an acceleration of the successor activity.






36. A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation will be controlled - changed and approved. in most application areas - the change control system is a subset of the configuration management system






37. Processes required to track - review and regulate the progress and performance of the project - identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required and initiate the corresponding changes.






38. Subdivision (fragment) of a project schedule network diagram - usually representing a subproject or work package.






39. Calculation of the early start and early finish dates for the uncompleted portions of all network activities






40. Permission and direction to begin work on a specific schedule activity or work package or control account. sanctions project work to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time - and in the proper sequence






41. Assurance that a product - service or system meets the needs of the customer and other identified stakeholders






42. Document that specifies in a complete precise verifiable manner the requirements - design behavior or other characteristics of a system component - product - result or service






43. One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports






44. Compares technical accomplishments during project execution to the project management plan's schedule of planned technical achievements.






45. Reviewing all change requests - approving changes - and managing changes to the deliverables - organizational process assets - project documents and project management plan






46. An approved plan for a project - plus or minus approved changes. it is compared to actual performance to determine if performance is within acceptable variance thresholds. generally refers to the current baseline - but may refer to the original or so






47. The person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project objectives






48. The process of completing each project procurement






49. Aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline






50. Documents and data on prior project including project files - records - correspondence - closed contracts - and closed projects